Memory phrase for the Kanji: 陰


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Meaning shadow, negative = Yin(female)

Pronunciation

IN
kage

Explanation

Left: hill , right: now (lid and corner フ) and: fog/mist (cf. cloud )

Mnemonic


 
The hill is now in the fog, thus in the shadow.

Radicals

hillThe radical kozato shows a hill. and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
now
fog has the meaning "fog" only in Chinese. This original meaning is still visible in: cloud . In Japanese it has the meaning to say/speak. For "fog" itself the character: 霧 (MU, kiri) is used.
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 Vocabulary

陰謀論 いんぼうろん  conspiracy theory
木陰 こかげ  Shade, tree shadow
日陰 ひかげ  shadow
かげ  shade, shadow, other side
陰気 いんき  gloom, melancholy


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